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Heppner Gazette Times, Thursday, February 9, 1956
HEPPNER GAZETTE TIMES
MORROW COUNTY'S NEWSPAPER
The Heppner Gazette, established March 30, 188. The Heppner Time, eetabUahed
November 18, 1897. Consolidated February 15, 12.
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Published Every Thursday and Entered at the Port Office at Heppner, Oregon, as Second Class Matter
Subscription Rates: Morrow and Grant Counties, $3.00 Year; Elsewhere $4.00 Year. Single Copy 10 cents.
The following article was brought in to us this
week by a local farmer. It appeared as a letter
to the editor of the weekly Western Livestock Re
porter, printed in Montana.
It presents another approach to the farm prob
lem and we make no comment on it. Each reader
may draw his own conclusions. It was headed
Who's Important?
I don't know what all the fuss is about. The
"plight" of the farmerrancher isn't THAT import
ant. When you examine all the charts and graphs
and statistics, you can readily see there IS no
farm problem. The problem is with the far
mers. And anyway, a solution is near at hand,
quick and easy. It looks very simple to me and
if it looks simple to me, it must be.
Pull out the props and let 'er all fall down.
Now, isn't that easy? Inside a month there would
be no farm problem for farmers to kick about or
politicians to kick around. The coming election
would be nice and quiet and there would be fewer
farmers. And don't think that isn't the end in
view: fewer farmers but bigger farms, fewer
ranchers but larger ranches If you'd kick out the
little guy and boost up the middle fella, the man
on top would be in a position to negotiate.
Why is it that farmers and ranchers consider
themselves so special? Nothing else much gets
that kind of treatment. Any other big business
runs on the simple principle of high production
big demand, low production-high prices. But
rural folks feel they are entitled to their inde
pendence and a profit, too. And it just isn't sen
sible. It isn't the way things are set up in our great,
big, beautiful country and nt's evading the is
sue to think so.
Rural production has no lawful mark-up on
its goods. A rancher doesn't by law have to pay
the owner (himself) any wages. He doesn't work
on a minimum wage basis. He produces what
people don't need so much of and expects to make
a profit. He's crazy.
The trouble with the rural population is that
they are modern in every respect, even to the in
side privy, but their thinking is about twenty
years ago or older. They think they're important,
when the truth is they comprise only 13 of the
population. They think the nation's economy Is
based on a prosperous agriculture. They think
the financial pages are off the beam. They think
that nothing could replace them in the scheme of
living. They don't know from nothing but they
don't even know it. They not only refuse to face
reality but they don't even recognize it.
Anything a farmerrancher can produce on the
land, science can produce better and cheaper.
Just take a look at wool versus orlon. And remem
ber, oi Ion looks like wool, feels like wool, but
orlon doesn't need ironing. Maybe test tube sir
loin sounds improbable and unappetizing, but
don't kid yourself, it would serve the same pur
pose. And it wouldn't have to be chewed.
Rural residents would do better to consider
themselves big business and go on a weekly pro-fit-and-loss
statement basis. They should get
modern and expand until what they had fo sell
would make a difference to somebody if it went
off the market. A lot of little farmers and ranch
ers can't do it even without their artificial res
piration. But a few big fellas could get real
tough and if that didn't work so good, they could
start producing a substitute. You remember who
it was put the work in on synthetic rubber, don't
you.
There is no such thing as the family size
farmranch any more, and it's been long gone.
It would take a big family to supply the unpaid
labor needed to work a farm big enough t0 sup
port the too-big family. And they'd still need
shoes for their feet. But not even the farm advi
sors, bless their little hearts, will admit the fam
ily farm is gone. And farm papers go right on
telling how to produce three hundred bushel corn
and forty bushel dry land wheat each and every
year after year. They tell you how to get ninety
per cent calf crop and save all the twin lambs.
But they fail to tell the truth: "Get big or get out."
What makes farming and ranching any different
, in that respect than any other big producer of
necessary goods?
Steel companies merge. Car manufacturers
join with other car manufacturers. Country
churches close up and go into town Sundays.
Even schools are consolidated. Farming is just
behind the times and we might as well face it. A
smart farmer is the one who sold out to a sub
sidiary of an oil company and went to work for
the company.
You really can't blame the urbanites. They
have a legitimate beef about subsidies. It makes
less sense than killing baby pigs, because back
there were hungry people but now you have to beg
overfed folks to eat more. Rural people have the
very worst publicity but what would YOU say of
CMC was subsidized?
What good does it to to blame Benson?? What
good is there in saying that it should have been
been cut off ten years ago? Why cuss the get-rich-quick
boys? Why snort at the city farmers?
It's much too late to be gentle, so pull out the
props and let 'er rip. What if a lot of small fellas
fall by the wayside? They aren't really import
ant, you know and nobody would miss them.
Get modern, boy, get modern. You wouldn't
want to go back to buggies, would you?
Grace Kenfield,
Kenfield Korral,
Reed Point, Mont.
THIRTY YEARS AGO
From Files of the Gazette Times
February 11, 1926
A better Heppner and a more
livable community is the aim of
the Heppner Luncheon club, or
ganization of which was perfect
ed Monday noon at a luncheon
meeting of representative Hepp
ner business men at the Elk
horn restaurant
The members of the Christian
Endeavor play cast were made
up largely of high school stu
dents. They were: Crocket
Sprouls, Merl Merritt, Velma Fell,
Ellis Thomson, Jim Thomson and
ttnei Moore. Minor parts were
Mrs. Emma Emery
Dies at Monument
By Martha Matteson
Mrs. Emma Alice Emery of
Monument died at her home at
noon January 30 following a
men were appointed and asked
to select their own committee
members.
Those appointed were: range
and pasture improvement, Don
Robinson, Heppner, chairman;
insect weeds and rodent Control.
Herbert Hynds, Cecil, chairman;
Cattleman of the Yer. Frank An-
takpn hv t imiio M,.n,iffpn Bnh derson. HeDDner. chairman; di-
Turner, Onez Parker and Stephen sease control, Dr. James Norene,
Thompson. Heppner, chairman; theft preven-
tion, W. W. Weatherford, Hepp-
J. W.Osborn. Cecil nioneer, washer, chairmanjlivestock market-
doing business in this city yes
terday.
ing, Ralph Beamer , iieppner,
chairman; meat promotion, Dick
Wilkinson, Heppner, chairman;
Maurice Frye this week moved , ""no icw, nuK' c ' o
his stock of radios and electrical -ner, chairman; game laws, Ray
supplies from the Slocum build-!mond prench' Heppner, chair
ing into his new quarters in the,mdn
McMurdo building where he is
now nicely located.
caused a lot of discussion.
The County Agent had the op
portunity last week while at
tending the annual meeting of
the National Association of Wheat
Growers t0 visit with a young
wheat grower from East Africa,
The young man who farms fif
teen hundred acres of wheat in
East Africa is in Oregon as a
Farm Bureau sponsored Interna
A new committee .to handle
matters of importance pertaining
to the livestock industry that
might not be funnelod through
one of these committees was that
of the interim committee which
will be headed by O. W. Cutsforth,
Lexington. The association asked
that an adult livestock class be
set up for those interested live
stock men for the winter of 1956
57. Specific classes for which
there was interest was that of
newer livestock diseases, form
bookkeeping and feed rations. A
committee of men will be se
short illness due to a stroke. She
has been an invalid in a wheel
chair for more than 35 years due
to arthritis.
She was born April 1J.
tlie daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Merrill and she spent her
iife fn the Hardman and Monu
ment areas.
Survivors are her husband
Henry Albert Emery; two sons,
Elzy Emery of Monument, Hugh
Emery, Des Moines, Washington;
two daughters, Mrs. Lawrence
Johnson, Redmond; Mrs. Ivery
Jewell, Monument; seven grand
children and three great-grandchildren.
She also leaves three
brothers, M. C. Merrill, Eugene;
Alonzo Merrill, Hermiston; Harve
of The Dalles, and one sister, Mrs.
Jane DeVore, Roseburg.
Funeral services were held at
Continued on page 7
He will spend ten months at the . Iected .80?n t0.stu and, suggest
Floyd Root farm in Sherman
County. Wheat farming in this
area of East Africa is not too dif
ferent from Oregon.
County Agent's News
By N. C. Anderson
A rather large delegation of
Morrow County wheat farmers
took part in the annual meeting
of the National Association of
Wheat Growers held last week in
Portland. Those -that I visited
with during the meeting felt that
it was very worthwhile and were
happy that they had the oppor
tunity to attend this Important
national meeting which was held
for the first time outside of the
great plains states.
This annual meeting, which
was the sixth, had the largest
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registration of wheat farmers
ever. Over six hundred register
ed during the three days. In ad
dition to a top slate of speakers
of national importance, the com
mittees worked hard and came
up with a number of recommen
dations effecting wheat farmers
throughout the nation.
One of the things that most
impressed me during the meet
ing was that important subjects
of public relations which the
wheat farmer must carry out.
Everyone indicated that a posi
tive action public relations pro
gram was necessory if the farmer
was to survive. That committee
came up with some fine recom
mendations for developing a
public relations program. Com
mendation was given the Oregon
Wheat Commission for an adver
tising program begun late last
year as a means of telling the
people of Oregon about wheat.
Perhaps the most interesting
and largely discussed item of the
three-day meeting was that of
the soil bank plan. Morrow county
farmers got across some good
recommendations in the federal
programs committee whic
The agent will be out of the
county on February 15 and 15 at
tending a district county agent's
conference in Pendleton. The con
ference will deal with current
questions in livestock manage
ment. Discussed during the two
days will be such things as fit
ting the livestock enterprise to the
farm business, what's new in
nutrition, developments in live
stock feeding in the area and re
cent developments in forage pro
duction. Several livestock and
farm management specialists'
from the college will be on the
program.
Recently the Morrow County
Livestock Growers Association)
met to outline their programs i
and projects for the year. At'
this time committees were ap- j
pointed to carry out the accom
plishments the Association in
tends to strive for in 1956. Chair-
a curriculum in these classes so
that arrangements can be com
pleted for instructors and others
details. Livestock men who are
do us a favor by letting us know
of this interest so that classes
could be arranged to cover sub
jects of most interest.
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